Exalt

Definition: Exalt

Exalt

Verb

1. Praise, glorify, or honor: "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking".

2. Fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink(exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies".

3. Heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination".

4. Raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "exalt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Exalt \Ex*alt"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Exalted; present participle verb or noun Exalting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Exalt

Approbation

Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo.

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Increase

Aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd; (add); spread; (disperse).

Repute

Make a noise, make some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's mark, exalt one's horn, blow one's horn, star it, have a run, be run after; come into vogue, come to the front; raise one's head.

Give honor to, do honor to, pay honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to, dignify, glorify; sing praises to; (approve); lock up to; exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate.

Enthrone, signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name down to posterity.

Crosswords: Exalt

My text for today comes from Psalm 99, Verse 9: Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain; writing credit: Ivor Monger; Christopher Monger)

We shall execute our king instead, sir, and exalt our tailors (The Scarlet Pimpernel; writing credit: William Bast; Baroness Emmuska Orczy)

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Books

• Exalt Him (reference)

• Exalt Him V1-Stereo (reference)

• Exalt Him V2-Stereo (reference)

• Exalt His Name: Mini-Musical (reference)

• Heart to heart : messages that warm the heart and exalt the Savior (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Exalt Him (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

he did not seek to drown grief in oblivion, but to exalt and to dignify it by hope

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "exalt": exalt to the skies. Additional references.

Albanian

zgjoj (arouse, awake, innervate, produce, provoke, quicken, rouse, waken, whet), përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, engrain, establish, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin), ngre në qiell (celebrate, eulogize, extol), ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, conjure, create, excite, feed up, heal, incur, infuse, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, revive, sow, wake, whet), lavdëroj (belaud, commend, emblazon, eulogize, extol, glorify, glory, Laud, magnify, panegyrize, praise, puff, vaunt), lartësoj (celebrate, chant, elevate, extol, glorify, lift up, magnify, raise, rear, rise, spring, sublimate, uplift). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثف (compress, concentrate, condense, inspissate, intensify, thicken), ‏كرر (do again, duplicate, echo, hammer out, iterate, rectify, redouble, reduplicate, refine, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, say again), ‏مجد (adoration, assiduous, canonize, celebrate, celebrity, diligent, enthrone, eulogize, extol, fame, glorify, glory, industrious, kudos, laborious, laud, laurels, luster, lustre, magnify, popularity, praise highly), ‏على (across, at, below, causal, in, lift, onto, to, upon, vocalic), ‏اشاد, ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усилвам (amplify, augment, exacerbate, exasperate, fortify, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify, nurse, piece in, potentiate, sharpen, stiffen, strengthen, swell, tone up, zip), възхвалявам (belaud, celebrate, eulogize, extol, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, praise, vaunt), въздигам (dignify, elevate, enthrone, erect, spiritualize, upraise), величая (extol, glorify, magnify), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�陞 (promote). (various references)

Czech

vyzvednout (collect, draw smb. out, fetch, stress, withdraw), vynášet (extol, pay, run up, vaunt), velebit (acclaim, bless, celebrate, eulogize, extol, glorify, Laud, praise), povýšit (elevate, prefer, promote, raise, upgrade), oslavovat (celebrate, emblazon, rejoice). (various references)

Farsi 

متعال کردن (Sublimate), تمجیدکردن (Laud), تجلیل کردن (Celebrate, Ennoble, Glorify), بلندکردن (Enhance, Ennoble, Enthrone, Heave, Heighten, Hoist, Lift, Loft, Pedestal, Rear, Remove, Upraise). (various references)

French

exalter (extol), répéter, fortifier, élever. (various references)

German

verherrlichen (celebrate, commend, extol, glamorize, glorify, glorifying, laud, praise, to exalt, to glamorize, to glorify), erhöhen (accelerate, advance, be aggravated, bring up, bump up, enhance, enlarge, heighten, improve, increase, increment, inflate, inflation, mark up, put up, quicken, raise, scale up, sharpen, step up, to exalt, to increase, to increment). (various references)

Greek 

εκθειάζω (extol, glorify, praise), εξυψώνω, εξυψώ (dignify, elevate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבח (applaud, commend, compliment, glorify, improve, praise), לרומם (aerate, glorify, lift). (various references)

Hungarian

magasztal (cry up, elevate, eulogize, extol, extoll, glorify, talk up, to bless, to boast, to elevate, to emblazon, to eulogize, to extol, to jolly, to jolly up, to laud, to praise, to talk up, to vaunt, vaunt), felemel (boost, elevate, heighten, levitate, lift up, peak, put up, raise, take up, to boost, to elevate, to exalt, to heighten, to hold up, to jack up, to pull up, to purchase, to set up, to sublime, to uplift, tuck up, upheave, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Indonesian

mengagungkan (elevate, glorify), memuja (adore, glorify, idolize, revere), meluhurkan (ennoble, glorify). (various references)

Italian

glorificare (glorify, hallow). (various references)

Manx

yrjaghey (draw, elate, elation, elevation, enhance, exaltation, exhilarate, exhilaration, go up, heighten, hoist, raise, retract, rise), geyraghey (edge, fresh, fresh of mind, intensify, sharpen, sharpening, whet, whet appetite), ard-voylley (citation, eulogize, eulogy). (various references)

Norwegian

opphøye, lovprise. (various references)

Pig Latin

exaltay.(various references)

Portuguese

exaltar (bless, cry up, elate, elevate, emblazon, extol, extoll, glorify, honor, honour, impassion, lift, magnify, pedestal, praise), engrandecer (aggrandize, dignify, enhance), intensificar (deepen, double, intensify, redouble, swell). (various references)

Romanian

exalta (excite, extol, glorify), entuziasma (carry away, carry smb. off his feet, electrify, enrapture, enthuse, spirit, transport), slãvi (bless, chant, emblazon, glorify, Laud, praise), preamãri (celebrate, extol, Laud), intensifica (enhance, exaggerate, heighten, increase, intensify, redouble, renew, sharpen, swell), adora (adore, glorify, idolize, venerate, worship), înflãcãra (fire, flush, heat, inflame, rouse), înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, erect, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, put up, raise, set up, uplift). (various references)

Russian 

возвеличивать (aggrandize, extol). (various references)

Scottish

� rdaich (elevate, lever, lift, raise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veličati (celebrate, extol, glorify, magnify, praise, set forth), ushititi (delight, elate, flush, overjoy, thrill). (various references)

Spanish

exaltar (elevate, excite, extol, extoll). (various references)

Swedish

upphöja (aggrandize, dignify, elevate, enthrone, erect, extol, lever, lift, raise). (various references)

Thai

ยกระ�"ับ (คำทางการ). (various references)

Turkish

yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), yüceltmek (aggrandize, belaud, emblazon, ennoble, enrich, sublimate, sublime, transfigure, uplift), heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, excite, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up, work up), gururlandırmak (elate, make proud, swell), güçlendirmek (beef up, brace, cement, enforce, enrich, make strong, reinforce, soup up, steel, strengthen, support to, tone up, vivify), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), övmek (acclaim, accord praise, belaud, boost, build up, celebrate, commend, compliment, crack up, cry up, emblazon, eulogize, extol, extoll, flatter, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, pay tribute, praise, puff, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of, speak in praise of smb., talk up, vaunt). (various references)

Ukrainian

звеличувати (aggrandize, apotheosize, celebrate, emblazon, eulogize, extol, extoll, glorify, glory), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), екзальтувати, підносити (dish, lift, pinnacle, present, sublimate, uplift), посилювати (aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, fade up, heighten, reinforce, sharpen). (various references)

Welsh

arddyrchafu (honor). (various references)

adtollens, adtollite, amplificare, amplificarent, amplificatus, amplificaverunt, amplificemus, amplifices, amplificet, attollo, effero, effero, extuli, elatum, exalta, exaltaberis, exaltabis, exaltabit, exaltabitur, exaltabo, exaltabor, exaltabuntur, exaltans, exaltant, exaltantem, exaltantes, exaltantur, exaltare, exaltarentur, exaltares, exaltaret, exaltari, exaltas, exaltasset, exaltasti, exaltat, exaltata, exaltatae, exaltate, exaltati, exaltatum, exaltatur, exaltatus, exaltaveris, exaltaverit, exaltaveritis, exaltaverunt, exaltavi, exaltavit, exaltemini, exaltemus, exaltent, exaltentur, exaltet, exaltetur, extollo, extuli, glorifico, mirifica, mirificavit. (various references)

inaltare. (various references)

onhebban. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "exalt": exaltation, exaltations, exalted, exaltedly, exalter, exalters, exalting, exalts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Exalt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ealat, ealth, ecal, Ejalu, Eksath, ewalt, exa, exal, Exall, exaltic, exant, exat, exault, exeat, exell, exelp, exhalt, exhault, exil, exl, exlan, exlat, Exlax, exolt, expat, exrat, exual, exulm, Eyal, gevalt, gewalt, lexal, oxal. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: latex.

-1 letter: axel, axle, late, tael, tale, teal, tela.

-2 letters: ale, alt, ate, axe, eat, eta, lat, lax, lea, let, lex, tae, tax, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, at, ax, el, et, ex, la, ta.

+1 letter: exalts, laxest, luxate.

+2 letters: dextral, exactly, exalted, exalter, explant, latexes, luxated, luxates, oxalate, taxable, taxless, textual.

+3 letters: acetoxyl, anthelix, axletree, exalters, exalting, excretal, exhalant, exhalent, explants, external, exultant, flaxiest, fluxgate, laxative, laxities, oxalated, oxalates, plateaux, relaxant, saxatile, tableaux, taxables, textural.

+4 letters: acetoxyls, axletrees, catalexes, catalexis, cataplexy, epitaxial, exactable, exaltedly, excitable, exculpate, exfoliate, exhalants, exhalents, explanted, explicate, externals, extrality, exultance, exultancy, fluxgates, inexactly, laxatives, lixiviate, luxuriate, metaxylem, pixilated, plaintext, relaxants, saltboxes, sexuality, telotaxes, telotaxis, textually, transaxle.